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The Third Part of the First Clime

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The cities mentioned in this third part of the First Clime Lord of Kugha are the famous cities of Kugha, Kuku, Tamala, Zaghawa, Matan, Anjimi, Nawaba, and Tajua. As for the city of Kugha, it is a city on the sweet water, and to its north, from which its people drink. It is part of the administration of Nuqlawa. Some people of the Sudan consider it to be part of Kanem. It is a populous city without a wall, and it has trades and works and industries in which they fashion what they need. The women of this city are attributed with witchcraft, and it is said that they are knowledgeable in it, famous for it, and capable of it. From Kugha to Samghada in the west is ten days. From Kugha to Ghana is about a month and a half. From Kugha to Damqala is a month. From Kugha to Shaba is less than a month. From Kugha to the city of Kuku Kuku in the north is twenty stages by camel travel. The city of Kuku is famous in the lands of the Sudan, large, and it is on the bank of a river that originates from the north and passes by it, from which its people drink. Many of the Sudanese mention that this city of Kuku is on the bank of the gulf, and other people mentioned that it is on a river that feeds the Nile. The correct statement is that this river flows until it passes Kuku by many days, then it sinks into the desert in the sands of Dahhas, just as the Euphrates River in the lands of Iraq sinks, and its sinking there is in the marshes. Furthermore, the King of the city of Kuku is a king in his own right, speaking for himself, and he has an entourage...